New feature: "Reject Message"

[Remco Barendse]

Hi Julian!

Could it be that this feature is in the Dec 1st release but that the 
report that languages.conf is referencing too was not included in the RPM 
upgrade package? :)



On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Julian Field wrote:

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> When you want to reject messages to or from a particular address, the
> usual answer is "do it in the MTA". The hazard with this is that the
> rejection message sent back to the sender is very brief and very
> technical. Somewhere in it, the message will probably say "550 Access
> denied" or some equally unhelpful message.
>
> So now there is a "Reject Message" setting which you should use with
> a ruleset. When this evaluates to "yes", then the "Rejection Report"
> message is sent back to the sender, and the message is dropped. If
> you want to archive mail that gets this treatment, then use an equal
> ruleset on the "Archive Mail" setting. The "Rejection Report" can
> also be a ruleset, so you can different reports back to different
> places.
>
> This allows you to produce a readable report instead of the unhelpful
> technical garbage produced by most MTAs.
> - --
> Julian Field
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